[eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 9, 2005

[Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 Status
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Platform/JDT Text:
- shipped 3.2 M3
- content assist clean up & bug fixing (respects
formatting preferences now)
- performance improvements for quick diff
- W-JAX 2005 talk preparation
- vacation
- bug fixing
- bug inbox tracking


JDT UI:
- finished implementation and UI of refactoring history
- finished implementations of refactoring-aware JAR
Export/Import UI 
- started conversion of existing CVS refactoring-aware
catchup operation
  to new team model support 
- several optimizations, removed global history index,
performance 
- implemented internal extension point to filter compilation
units from
  being touched by refactorings
- started code review for 'rename derived elements'
feature 
- preferences UI for 'treat options errors as fatal',
split up J2SE
  section on the Error/warning page
- test/fix/ship M3 
- bug fixes
- vacation

Rel. Eng:
- 3.2M3 testing and delivery
- added JUnit test which checks for javadoc errors
and warnings
- troubleshooting PDE Build source feature generation/packaging
- bug fixing: performance graph generation tool, source
build
- bug triage

Platform UI:
- general:
  - M3 testing/bug fixing
  - working more on WorkingSets (trying to disable
usage of the window
    set across components)
  - making some basic Colour APIs public
  - preparing documentation
  - workbench part lifecycle bug fixing:
    - MultiPageEditorPart
    - MultiEditor
    - EditorPart
  - investigations in 109661, opening up the
trimmings of the 
    workbench
  - ICU4J checking licenses etc...
  - import/export tests
- Commands:
  - added concept of handler state, which allows
the workbench to
    persist information between sessions
and also label retargetting
    on handlers
  - made the key binding that will appear in
the menu predictable
  - added more event inputs to the various services
(e.g., menus, 
    handlers and contexts) for _expression_
evaluation 
  - add debugging info for the command+_expression_
event framework (aka 
    "Sources")
- Common Navigator:
  - initial Experimental API version in M3, not
quite ready to make a 
    call for feedback on this but feel free
to try out the 
    "Experimental..." view.
  - various design discussions (mainly over scenarios
from 
    Logical Model Support):
    - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36961
- JFace Data Binding:
  - Initial Framework in coming this week
  - working on making non-javadoc documentation
available
- Logical Model Support:
  - communcation with other potential clients
of this work
  - gathering, organizing and prioritizing scenarios
  - elaborating editor opening scenario  
- Problems View enhancements:
  - categorization of marker types
  - improvements to hierarchy mode
- Progress/Decorators:
  - performance work
- CVS permissions:
  - cleaned up CVS permissions and ownerships
on dev.eclipse.org 
  - please contact us if thought you should have
rights on a UI project 
    and no longer do

Debug:
- 3.2 M3 test pass & bug fixing
- preparing to merge "flexible debug platform"
development with HEAD
- continued work on:
  - investigation of single click launching
  - asynch table viewer
  - launch configuration resource association
and filtering configs in
    closed projects from UI
    - prototype of runtime classpath editing

User Assistance:
- investigating the problem with following cheatsheet
steps that include
  opening a modal dialog
- adding new JUnit test cases for cheat sheets and
welcome
- M3 work
- looking at search enhancements required for dynamic
content

PDE:
- schema editor redesign
- enhancements to the bundelizer
- M3 work
- defect fixing

Update:
- enhancement to the delta feature handler to be able
to compute deltas
  within JARs
- server-side mirror code finished and the patches
attached to the
  relevant bugs
- M4 plan is up
- defect fixing